Fedir Bohatyrchuk
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| Fedir Bohatyrtschuk, around 1925 |
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 Russia (until 1917) Soviet Union (1922 to 1944) Canada (from 1949)
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| Born | November 26, 1892 Kiev , Russian Empire |
| Died | September 4, 1984 Ottawa , Canada |
| title | International champion (1954) |
| Best Elo rating | 2629 (October 1927, historic rating ) |
Fedir Parfenowytsch Bohatyrtschuk (also: Fyodor / Fedor Bogatirtschuk / Bogatyrtschuk / Bohatyrczuk; Ukrainian Федір Парфенович Богатирчук ; Russian Фёдор Парфеньевич Богатырчук ; English Fedor Bohatirchuk or Bogatyrchuk * 14 . Jul / 26. November 1892 greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire ; † September 4, 1984 in Ottawa , Canada ) was a Ukrainian - Canadian chess player .
Bohatyrchuk was a radiologist and also excelled as a political activist. However, he became known as a chess player.
Time in the USSR
He learned to play chess at the age of 15. In 1910 he won the city championship of Kiev for the first time, ahead of Efim Bogolyubov . In 1914 he took part in the main tournament A in Mannheim . When the tournament was canceled because of the outbreak of war , he was 6-10. All Russian participants were temporarily interned.
He participated in six USSR championships (1923, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1934); he celebrated one of his greatest successes in 1927 in Moscow at the 5th championship of the USSR. There he took first place together with Pyotr Romanovsky and relegated stars like Mikhail Botvinnik and Fyodor Dus-Chotimirski to their places. At the first international chess tournament in Moscow in 1925 he reached 11th place. In 1926 he published the first chess textbook in Ukrainian.
At the international tournament in Moscow in 1935 he won a well-known game against Botvinnik. Since he received massive state support as a contender for the world championship title , Bohatyrtschuk attracted the displeasure of high officials like Nikolai Krylenko with this victory .
Second World War
During the Second World War , Bohatyrtschuk worked for the Red Cross and also for the German occupiers. When the Soviet troops were advancing westwards, he fled first to Krakow , then to Germany, where he lived for a time and under code names like Bogenko and Bogenhols participated in chess tournaments. In 1944/45 he worked for the Russkaja Oswoboditelnaja Armija ( Russian Liberation Army ). In the Soviet Union he was then considered a non-person, his name was deleted from the chess books.
Canada
In 1948 he emigrated to Canada and became a Canadian citizen in 1949. There he taught at the University of Ottawa . He also took part in the Canadian championships three times, but did not get beyond second place. In 1954 he played for Canada at the Chess Olympiad in Amsterdam . In the same year FIDE awarded him the title of International Master , but he did not receive the Grand Master title due to an intervention by the Soviet Chess Federation. Later he turned to correspondence chess , where he also achieved the IM title in 1967.
With his best historical rating of 2629 he was in October 1927 in 15th place in the subsequently calculated world rankings.
Web links
- Biography ( Memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fedir Bohatyrtschuk's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
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| SURNAME | Bohatyrchuk, Fedir |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bohatyrchuk, Fedir Parfenowytsch (full name); Богатирчук, Федір Парфенович (Ukrainian); Богатырчук, Фёдор Парфеньевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian-Canadian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 1984 |
| Place of death | Ottawa , Canada |